Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle EastFrom the first expansion of Islam to the exploits of Saddam Hussein, Middle Eastern society has been fatefully involved with the West. This revised and updated collection of essays by a leading Western expert on Islam and the Middle East gives essential background to the present Middle Eastern conflicts and their interaction, through mutual misunderstanding, with Western conceptions. From the first expansion of Islam to the exploits of Saddam Hussein, Middle Eastern society has been fatefully involved with the West. This revised and updated collection of essays by a Western expert on Islam and the Middle East gives valuable background information in relation to the present Middle Eastern conflicts and their interaction, through mutual misunderstanding, with Western conceptions. |
Contents
Muslim History and Historians | 85 |
The Cult of Spain and the Turkish Romantics | 129 |
Muslims and Jews | 135 |
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Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East Bernard Lewis No preview available - 1993 |
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